Infrastructure Engineer Contract Job Trends in Maidstone

Infrastructure Engineer
Kent > Maidstone

The median Infrastructure Engineer daily rate in Maidstone is £333, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 2 6 10
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 +9
Contract jobs requiring an Infrastructure Engineer 7 5 1
As % of all contract jobs in Maidstone 24.14% 19.23% 2.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 24.14% 19.23% 2.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 0
10th Percentile - £312 -
25th Percentile £329 £315 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £326 -
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% - -
75th Percentile £340 £335 -
90th Percentile £386 £336 -
Kent median daily rate £333 £320 £364
% change year-on-year +3.91% -12.03% -13.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Maidstone

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Maidstone. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Maidstone with a recognized job title 29 26 40
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 100.00% 100.00% 95.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 8 23
10th Percentile £146 £189 £185
25th Percentile £329 £229 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £338 £326 £365
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -10.62% +19.18%
75th Percentile £454 £544 £373
90th Percentile £611 £582 -
Kent median daily rate £419 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -16.25% +11.11% +18.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £15.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £20.40 - £55.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Kent median hourly rate £17.20 £53.00 £45.50
% change year-on-year -67.55% +16.48% +7.53%

Infrastructure Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in Maidstone

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Infrastructure Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Maidstone.

Infrastructure Engineer job vacancy trend in Maidstone

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in Maidstone

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Maidstone.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Infrastructure Engineer job vacancies in Maidstone

Infrastructure Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in Maidstone

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Infrastructure Engineer in Maidstone over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Infrastructure Engineer in Maidstone

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Top 14 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Maidstone

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Infrastructure Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Maidstone region featuring Infrastructure Engineer in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 6 (85.71%) SAN
3 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
3 1 (14.29%) Citrix
3 1 (14.29%) Dell
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
3 1 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (14.29%) Windows Server

Infrastructure Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Maidstone by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
General
1 6 (85.71%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Replication
2 3 (42.86%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (14.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Citrix
1 1 (14.29%) Dell
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) VMware